Penfolds

Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz 2015

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  Vintage 2015
  96 points Halliday Wine Companion

It''s a wine with a ''wow'' introduction. It throws beautiful, beautiful aroma. It''s distinguished by it. It''s sweet, pudding-like, like fresh vanilla, like lemon delicious. I went to taste this wine and couldn''t get past the nose; I just wanted to go on enjoying its aromatics. It''s smells every bit Penfolds but every bit itself. The palate is true to established form, with blackcurrant and bay leaf notes rigged to a powerful motor of tannin. Creamy/vanillin oak gets on with business too but again the fruit stares it down. From every angle this is a belter of a Bin 389. It''s best consumed any time between now and the apocalypse, or thereabouts.

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  Vintage 2015
  96 points

It''s at 389 where the magic really begins in the modern Penfolds line up, and the great 2015 season has produced a wine as dark, vibrant and enticing as ever. Cabernet and Shiraz embrace harmoniously in a confluence of blackcurrant and blackberry depth, magnificently supported by classy dark chocolate American oak. Fine-grained tannins effortlessly yet confidently promise a grand future. One of the greats in the magnificent lineage of Bin 389. Drink 2030-2040